Brief Introduction to BUCEA Founded in 1936£¬Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture is the only architectural university in Beijing. BUCEA now has 11 secondary schools and 3 basic teaching units, namely, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, School of Environment and Energy Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Information Technique, School of Economics and Management Engineering, School of Geometrics and Urban Information, School of Mechanical-electronics and Automobile Engineering, School of Humanity and Law, School of Sciences, School of Continuing Education, School of International Education, Department of Computer Teaching and Network Information, Department of Ideological and Political Theories, and Department of Physical Education.It has 8861 full-time internal students, 7575 of whom are undergraduates, 1282 postgraduate students, 4 doctoral students and 61 overseas students. With respect to its 35 undergraduate specialties, three are MOE characteristic specialties (architecture, civil engineering, building environment and equipment engineering), seven characteristic specialties of Beijing (architecture, civil engineering, building environment and equipment engineering, water supply and drainage engineering, project management, surveying engineering, automation). First subject units and secondary subject units master degree authority are 13 and 55 respectively. There are 8 units of master professional degree authority. Of the first subjects, 5, i.e., architecture, civil engineering, surveying and mapping science, management science and engineering, urban planning and design are key subjects of Beijing.At present, there are 1000 staff members in BUCEA, and 671 of them are full-time teachers. Of the 381 teachers with senior professional technical titles, 105 are full professors, 20 are part-time doctoral supervisor. There are 1 professor of “Changjiang Scholars Program”, 1 national outstanding teacher, 8 experts enjoying the special government allowance, 1 entrepreneurial innovation special contribution award winner , 1 expert of Beijing hundreds of leading talents in science and technology, 4 persons selected of "Millions of Talents Project" of Beijing, 3 Great Wall scholars, 7 teaching masters, 3 high-level talents, 5 academic innovation talents, 7 Stars of science and technology, 20 young outstanding talents, 20 young talents, 25 Beijing excellent teaching teams, academic innovation teams, management innovation teams.

BUCEA is composed of two campuses, Xicheng Campus and Daxing Campus. The former covers an area of 123,000 square meters, with 202,000 square meters for building area. The latter occupies 501,000 square meters, and 265,000 square meters for building area. The university library has a collection of 1,529,000 printed books, 1,210,000 electronic books, 46 large electronic literature database. With China Architectural Library which is co-built with MOHURD, BUCEA boasts its architectural books that are the most complete in China.BUCEA has remained to be teaching-centered and spared no efforts in improving education quality. It has received 20 awards for teaching and 8 of them topped the lists in the recent Beijing Teaching Achievement Awards. It has built 119 practice teaching bases in and out of the campus. In the past five years, students of BUCEA have won 336 provincial and ministerial level awards in scientific and cultural activities, such as the Challenge Cup, in Beijing and elsewhere in China.Over the years, more than 60,000 and above excellent graduates of BUCEA have become backbones of the capital city’s construction system.In the past five years, BUCEA has been in charge of over 1900 scientific research projects, of which 377 were at or above provincial and ministerial levels such as the State 863 and the State Scientific and Technological Support Projects. It has won 56 scientific and technological achievements prizes at or above provincial-ministerial levels, 8 of which were State Technological Invention Award and National Award for Technological Invention. For three consecutive years from 2010, BUCEA, as the chair unit, won second prize for national scientific and technological progress. Its technology services funds broke through a hundred million in the continuing seven years, which comes out on top among universities affiliated to Beijing. Now BUCEA has got MOE key laboratory for urban drainage systems and water environment, MOE engineering research center for representative buildings and ancient architecture database, SBSM key laboratory for surveying and mapping in modern cities, Beijing climate change research and personnel training base, etc., a total of 20 provincial key laboratories and engineering research centers, social science bases and the University Technology Park projects. It is one of the two universities identified as the first equity incentive pilot reform units of Zhongguancun National Innovation Demonstration Zone.BUCEA takes active approaches in conducting substantive cooperation in high-level talents training, scientific research and other aspects. It has established long-term cooperation relationship with 41 universities and colleges in 23 countries and regions. It worked with Auburn University in U.S. to operate Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run educational project (2 +2 mode) in water supply and drainage, as well as all-round cooperation in all the other majors. It furthered the cooperation with University of South Australia in Australia and E.P.L.E. Maximilien Perret in France in civil engineering master degree program and school-enterprise cooperation in energy sectors. Meanwhile, it has launched students exchange activities and mutual credit recognition with University of South Wales in the U.K., North Dakota State University in the U.S., Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, Russian St. Petersburg University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Russia, Università Politecnica delle Marche in Italy, Kyonggi University in South Korea, UNITEC Institute of Technology in New Zealand, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Yilan University of Taiwan. BUCEA has also introduced foreign scholars, foreign experts, and actively participated in interactive development in disciplines, scientific research and talents training.